Byron's Don Juan

Byron's Don Juan
Author: Bernard Beatty
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016-04-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317234758

First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan, and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling narrative? These are the questions that Bernard Beatty proposes in this subtle and elegant discussion of Byron’s masterwork. The legend of Don Juan was entrenched in European literature and other arts long before it came under Byron’s hands, yet Byron’s treatment of the story is often almost unrecognisably far from its forebears. Beatty indicates how deeply Byron has assimilated his predecessors in order to produce his own work. The sustained argument of this book raises questions of interest not only to students of Byron but of comedy in general, as well as of the place of religious motifs in apparently secularised modes.

Routledge Library Editions: Lord Byron

Routledge Library Editions: Lord Byron
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1864
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131719876X

This set reissues 7 books on the Romantic poet Lord Byron originally published between 1957 and 2005. The volumes examine Byron’s poetry, his poetic development, and his social and private life. Lord Byron’s epic satiric poem Don Juan is examined by some of the leading scholars of Romanticism.